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A major audit of nearly 50,000 monuments reveals the historical figures, themes and myths that dominate the nation's commemorative landscape
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Snap Inc. launch LACMA x Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives Initiative rolls out with dynamic schedule of programs including panels, podcasts, and a docuseries. LOS ANGELES, CA .-The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in collaboration with Snap Inc., today introduces the first collection of LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives projects. This multi-year initiative brings together local artists and technologists to create virtual monuments that explore just some of the histories of Los Angeles communities in an effort to highlight perspectives from a...
As much as we'd like to think that we're doing everything right, right now, we're not. Not totally. In a century or so, the folks who've taken our place here on the shore of Lake Michigan (assuming that we're not messing up so badly that there's not still a Lake Michigan) will recognize our failings. They'll wonder how we could have been so ignorant and careless. Or worse, so craven. They’ll attempt to set things right. And, with the benefit of history's rearview mirror, they'll decide the fate of any monuments to false heroes or disastrous causes we may have left behind.
Chicago mayor targets monuments to Civil War, American Revolution As tragedies go, few match the poetic dimensions of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, Good Friday, 1865. Coming just five days after General Robert E. Lee surrendered Confederate armies to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, and four years and three days after the attack on Fort Sumter opened the conflict, Lincoln’s killing was, symbolically, the last act in the carnage of the Civil War that had taken the lives of some 700,000 Americans, made 4 million slaves “henceforth and forever free,”...
The Orwellian idea of removing Lincoln from Chicago would be as vain as an attempt to erase the history of Chicago itself. One might just as well allow the Magnificent Mile to wash back into Lake Michigan.